I have seen films in many different locations, from the sublime (Palais de Festival at Cannes) to the ridiculous (The Coronet on Didcot Broadway), but one factor remains constant: even a bad film can seem better by seeing it on a big screen in the company of others.
Once upon a time we poor film buffs were forced to haunt the wilder reaches of BBC2 in search of the occasional glimpse of films by Fellini, Bergman and Truffaut. The arrival of video cassettes improved the supply a little, but it took the the arrival of the DVD to compel movie companies to throw open the cupboard doors and ransack their back catalogues in a desparate attempt to shift some stock before DVDs go the same way as CDs and we download everything on to our iPods.
But no film company is able to provide the real audience experience, and it for this reason that twice a month a loyal and - hopefully - growing band of film fans meet in our local village hall to dream the same dream in unison.
The aim of this blog is to follow the fortunes of our village film club as we embark on our fourth season. Along the way I reserve the right to digress as I think fit into other film-related issues and to write about my favourite films, directors, actors, writers and composers.
The only common thread will be that there will be some link, however tangential, to film.
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